Published Online in: Educational Researcher October 29, 2020
Megan Kuhfeld, NWEA James Soland, University of Virginia Beth Tarasawa, NWEA Angela Johnson, NWEA Erik Ruzek,听University of Virginia Jing Liu, University of Maryland, College Park
As the COVID-19 pandemic upended the 2019鈥�2020 school year, education systems scrambled to meet the needs of聽students and families with little available data on how school closures may impact learning. In this study, we produced a聽series of projections of COVID-19-related learning loss based on (a) estimates from absenteeism literature and (b) analyses聽of summer learning patterns of 5 million students. Under our projections, returning students are expected to start fall 2020聽with approximately 63 to 68% of the learning gains in reading and 37 to 50% of the learning gains in mathematics relative聽to a typical school year. However, we project that losing ground during the school closures was not universal, with the top聽third of students potentially making gains in reading.
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Read the聽research video news brief:听"Research Video News Brief:聽Projecting the Potential Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Academic Achievement."听 Preferred Citation:聽Kuhfeld, M; Soland, J., Tarasawa, B., Johnson, A., Ruzek E., & Liu, J. Projecting the Potential Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on Academic Achievement.听Educational Researcher. Prepublished October 29, 2020.听
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